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βούλ-ησις , εως, ἡ,
A.willing, Arist.de An.433a43; “β. ἀγαθοῦ ὄρεξις” Id.Top.146b5, cf. EN1111b19; τῶν ἀδυνάτων, τοῦ τέλους, ib. 1111b22, 1113a15; purpose, “πράσσειν β.” E.HF1305; wish, desire, Th.3.39, Pl.Grg.509d, etc.; βούλησιν ἐλπίζει entertains a hope and purpose, Th.6.78; “κατὰ τὴν β.” Pl.Cra.420d, al.; παρὰ τὴν β. ibid., Arist.EN 1136b24: pl., Pl.Lg.688b, Arist.Rh.1378b18; of the gods, Polystr. p.10 W.
II. purpose or meaning of a poem, Pl.Prt.344b; signification of a word, Id.Cra.421b.
III. will, testament, “β. ἔγγραφος” PLips.33 ii 10 (iv A. D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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